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3M, the company who pioneered the pocket projector is now making it even better. The MPro120 projects images from 8 to 50 inches and incorporates next-generation features, including built-in sound. The MPro12 is about the size of the LG Chocolate phone with dimensions around 2.5 x 0.75 x 4.0 inches.  It’s also one of the most affordable full-featured microprojectors on the market.  The MPro120 can turn almost any white space on the wall into a projection screen. With an energy-efficient LED technology, it can deliver a whopping 20,000 hours of operation (typical LED life), which can output images at 640 x 480 resolution.

The MPro 120‘s VGA port, Composite adapter and Female-to-male RCA converter allow users to connect just about any device. And with 3M’s enhanced battery life, you can enjoy a full two-hour movie without plugging in.  That will typically last between 2 and 4 hours depending on usage.  Aiming the devices’ projected image can be accomplished by adjusting a small tripod that flips down as a stand.  The MPro120 costs about $350.00, and you don’t need to carry those heavy projectors to a presentation anymore.

Pioneer will unleash its Blu-ray secret weapon in October.  That is the Pioneer Blu-ray player, BDR-205.  Skip the 8x and 10x burn speeds from the Chinese Blu-ray burners, Pioneer jumped ahead with the 12x burn speed.  The secret behind the technology is a 450 mW pulsed-operation blu-violet laser, which is significantly stronger than the 200 mW lasers that are commonly used in today’s Blu-ray players.  At 12x burn speed, its ability to burn data into the Blu-ray disc is about 54MB/s.  This is equivalent to burning 25GB of data in about 8 minutes, and that is really fast.  DVD speed can reach up to 16x and Blu-ray rewritable speed is only at 2x, which is roughly about 9MB/s to the disc.  The Pioneer BDR-205 is connected with a SATA 3.0 cable, so no more parallel clutter cable in your computer box.

The  Pioneer BDR-205 12x Blu-ray burner will be available in black or white version, and will include softwares such as PowerDVD 8, Power2Go 6, and InstantBurn 5.  The price is about $249.

Freecom, a Mitsubishi Kagaku Media company announced the  hard drive called Hard Drive XS 3.0 – the first external hard drive in the world to offer ‘SuperSpeed USB’ technology. Using USB 3.0, the Hard Drive XS3.0′s transfer speeds can reach up to approximately 130 MB/s; this is significantly faster than existing 2.0 USB drives.  The Hard Drive XS3.0 allows users to back up and upload information in a matter of seconds.   This is ideally for both home and industrial usages.  People with the need for speed can transfer large files quickly and have their data on-the-go.  In addition,  the Hard Drive XS 3.0 is also the smallest 3.5” desktop hard drive available, in a sense,  it is slimmer than conventional hard drives.

The Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0 is also backwards compatible with all USB 2.0. As of right now, USB 3.0 is not readily, abundantly available to the public.  Most of the computers today are currently operating under USB 2.0, and you will need a USB 3.0 controller to take advantage of the USB 3.0 transfer speed.  For comparison, the USB 3.0 theoretical transfer speed is about 5 Gbps and the USB 2.0 interface is 480 Mbps.  But as we all know, theoretical transfer speed is different from the real world speed.  As you can see that the USB 3.0 highest transfer speed for the Hard Drive XS3.0 is about 130MB/s, and the transfer speed for USB 2.0 is about 40-50 MB/s in real world applications.

The price of the 1TB Hard Drive XS 3.0 is about $190.

Finally, somebody has the gut to made a dual Intel Atom processor netbook.  Well, that somebody is from a small company called Haleron Technologies.  The dual Intel Atom processor netbook is called Swordfish Net 102, weird name I may add.  It comes with two Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processors (this is not the same as dual core like the Atom N330 found in desktop), 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, and a 10.2 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1024 by 600.  The base model comes with a skimpy 3-cell 2450mAh battery; now how is this battery capacity going to fit into the dual  processors spec?  One question will come up is that does the dual processors has the power management system?  The ability to shut down one processor when the system is under load is important to save battery life.  Other specs include WiFi, 3G, dual Bluetooth, 10/100 LAN, and a 1.3 megapixel camera.

The Swordfish Net 102 netbook is not available in retail stores yet but is now available at Haleron for $499.  At $499 and netbook spec, that is kind of steep.  It is treading into the economy notebooks realm.

The new Dell Latitude Z laptop will be available today for $2,000.  The Dell Latitude Z laptop is a pretty laptop with slim design that you can do business and looking good at the same time.  Hey, who says you that you can’t mix business with pleasure?  The Dell Latitude Z600, one of the thinnest, lightest, with the  most innovative features of business laptops.   It is thin yet the Z600 is very sturdy. The  casing is made from a magnesium alloy, while the interior is laced with brushed aluminum metals.

The Dell Latitude Z  carries a big 8-cell battery, which gives about 8-9 hours in normal usage.  The stunning 16-inch widescreen, which has a 1,600-by-900 resolution,  let you both work and play at the same time.  The Z600 comes with the Intel ultra low voltage processors: the Intel Core 2 Duo SU9600 or SU9400. It supports up to 4GB of DDR3 memory.   One neat thing about this Dell Latitude Z600 is that it can instant boot on to access emails.  This feature was accomplished with a separate mini computer system installed on the motherboard.  The mini computer system comes with its own memory, ARM processor, and Linux operating system. This allow you to access mail clients that support Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2003 in just a few seconds.

At a $2000 price tag, you’re paying for innovative technology and features in the Dell Latitude Z600 that you would not find in any other business laptop computers.

Feast your eyes on the new mobile phone from Motorola.  The new CLIQ will be available on the T-Mobile network for $199 with a two year contract, which comes attached with a data plan ($24.99).  This will be the first attempt from Motorola to come out with an Android phone.  The new CLIQ can be pre-order at the T-Mobile USA website, starting October 19th to November 1st. The new CLIQ will compete with the Palm Pre, iPhone, and a bunch of other multi-media touch phones, including the new LB LB40.  One thing is for sure, every phone company now has a multi-media, multi-tasks phone by now.  The CLIQ should compete well against rivals as a combined voice and data bundle can cost as little as $55 per month versus the $70 of AT&T or Sprint.  To be fair, Sprint $70 plan comes with everything.

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